In a landmark judgment, the New South Wales Land and Environment Court has ruled that a proposed coal mine should be rejected partly because of its greenhouse gas emissions. So what are the implications for one of our biggest export industries?

Australia's biggest companies are ignoring calls from regulators and investors to do more to mitigate the risks of climate change, with a new study finding that many of the nation's top 100 companies still do not identify climate change as a material business risk.

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd's suggestion that Australia should offer citizenship to residents of Tuvalu, Kiribati and Nauru in exchange for control of their seas has been met with condemnation in the Pacific.

A senior tropical disease researcher is warning that cases of the soil-borne infectious disease melioidosis, which has already claimed a life in Queensland this year, will increase due to climate change.

Scientists are concerned about changes in the world's insect populations, with one expert claiming the rate of insect extinctions is about eight times higher than that of vertebrates, and even warning they could disappear altogether in some places.

A study into the Thwaites Glacier finds a massive 300-metre-high hole that would have contained 14 billion tonnes of ice — most of which has melted over the past three years. If it melts completely, sea levels could rise by 65 centimetres.

A new study finds that even if the most ambitious Paris climate accord goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century is met, more than a third of the region's glaciers will be lost.